Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity, And the Text - Couverture souple

Brooks, Carellin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774812109 ISBN 13 : 9780774812108

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2006

Synopsis

What makes the textual image of a woman with a penis so compelling, malleable, and persistent? The phallic woman can be a ribald joke, a fantastical impossibility, a masculine usurper, an ultimately unthreatening sexual style, an interrogation into the I of the author, or an examination of female culpability. Every Inch a Woman takes note of a proliferation of phallic feminine figures in disparate North American and European texts from the end of the nineteenth century onward. Carellin Brooks traces this phallic-woman motif backward to the sexological case study, and forward to newspaper accounts of testosterone-taking third-sexers. Brooks examines both high and low literature, pornography, postmodern theory, and writing.

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À propos de l'auteur

Carellin Brooks was a Rhodes Scholar and holds a Master's in English literature from Oxford University. She is the editor of Bad Jobs and co-editor of Carnal Nation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774812109
• ISBN 13: 9780774812108
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible